Heimlich named Lifetime Hero
Published: December 30, 2004
Dr. Henry Heimlich will be honored as the Lifetime Health Care Hero at the Courier’s eighth annual Health Care Heroes Awards program. [..]
Heimlich is known worldwide as the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, which since its introduction in 1974 has saved 50,000 people in the United States alone from choking or drowning. Born in 1920, he earned his medical degree from Cornell University in 1943 and served in the U.S. Navy in World War II. He is also the inventor of the Heimlich chest drain valve.
For the past decade, the Hyde Park resident has been working to develop treatments for cancer and AIDS. He also heads the Heimlich Institute, a Cincinnati-based nonprofit research and education organization affiliated with Deaconess Associations Inc.
“I have received many awards, but this award has a great deal more meaning than most, because Cincinnati has done so much for me,” said Heimlich. “I have been able to carry my work out. I’m a very independent person and yet have received so much help from various institutions here.”
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